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The Mystery Woman by Belinda Alexandra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
She had thought Shipwreck Bay was simply a remote town where people were bored senseless with their little lives. Now she saw its virtuous facade hid something darker, more sinister. Rebecca Wood is ready for a quiet life as the new postmistress of a sleepy seaside town. Fleeing a scandal and haunted by ...Show more
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend. Giovanna's pretty face has changed: it's turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things as they really are? Into which mirror must she look to find her ...Show more
Boy Swallows Universe TV Tie In: The much-loved emotional international bestselling novel from Australia's favourite storyteller, now a major Netflix series by Trent Dalton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Australia's favourite novel, now a major Netflix series, starring Travis Fimmel, Simon Baker, Phoebe Tonkin, Bryan Brown and Anthony La Paglia. The bestselling novel that has taken Australia, and the world, by storm. Winner of Book of the Year at the 2019 Indie Book Awards, winner of a record four Aus ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
Before We Say Goodbye by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary | Series: Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time? The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funi ...Show more
The Night Tide by Di Morrissey
$22.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
<b><i>Di Morrissey returns to her roots with a heartfelt tale of secrets, mystery and community in an idyllic Sydney waterway, inspired by her childhood home of Pittwater.</i></b> A secluded, peaceful and diverse waterside community faces turmoil as corporate greed threatens to u ...Show more
Kimberley Sun by Di Morrissey
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: Contemporary
This is the enthralling sequel to Tears of the Moon, a story about modern relationships and the unbreakable ties we all have to the past, from Australia's favourite storyteller with the new novel Arcadia out soon. Lily Barton is beautiful, adventurous and 50-something. She is looking for a complete life ...Show more
Looking Out by Fiona McCallum
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Beneath the facade not everything is as it seems... A moving and suspenseful story of family dynamics, obsession and the power of true friendship from Australia's master storyteller, Fiona McCallum. On the surface Natasha and Mitchell live an idyllic life in the Adelaide Hills with their two daughte ...Show more
Becoming Beth by Meredith Appleyard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Beth has forgotten the core truth of her own life. In a cruel move, her dead mother is about to remind her. A wise and ultimately warm-hearted story about self-discovery, family and community for readers of Tricia Stringer and Liz Byrski. Since adolescence, 58-year-old Beth has lived her life with blink ...Show more
Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens
$34.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric unit recovering from a mental breakdown. A decade earlier, her life held such promise; she had every option in her hand. How did it come to this? As we go back and walk with Adella through her twenties, she ...Show more
Daisy and Kate by Meredith Appleyard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary
Friendship lost and found again. Jealousy destroyed their friendship decades ago, but now they need each other more than ever ...Once upon a time Daisy Miller and Kate Hannaford were the best of friends, sharing the woes of shift work and nursing, the delights of days off together in their small country ...Show more